Comments on: The Water Is Warm ‘Til You Discover How Deep http://twentyorsomething.com/2008/07/17/the-water-is-warm-til-you-discover-how-deep/ tonight we drink to youth. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:10:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Roommate http://twentyorsomething.com/2008/07/17/the-water-is-warm-til-you-discover-how-deep/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Roommate Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:42:14 +0000 http://twentyorsomething.wordpress.com/?p=108#comment-17 The exact reason why I know that I can't move away from here is that I feel like all of the bad things I've become were caused here and I have to stay in order to get them back. Like you said also, they'll follow me wherever I go anyway. It's horrible feeling, but I guess you could say I'm trapped. I'm sorry you feel like you have to escape your own house. I wish it wasn't like that. <em>This is exactly why I know that I have to. Eventually. I feel like I blossom when I'm independent and on my own, and I got my first taste of that when I first went to France. When I came back, I felt changed, bold, a risk-taker. I miss that feeling, I miss that me. I'm sorry that you feel so trapped, and I'm sorry that you don't like who you've become. That is the hardest part of it all, I think, but the best part of it all is that only you have the power to change it. The exact reason why I know that I can’t move away from here is that I feel like all of the bad things I’ve become were caused here and I have to stay in order to get them back. Like you said also, they’ll follow me wherever I go anyway. It’s horrible feeling, but I guess you could say I’m trapped.

I’m sorry you feel like you have to escape your own house. I wish it wasn’t like that.

This is exactly why I know that I have to. Eventually. I feel like I blossom when I’m independent and on my own, and I got my first taste of that when I first went to France. When I came back, I felt changed, bold, a risk-taker. I miss that feeling, I miss that me.

I’m sorry that you feel so trapped, and I’m sorry that you don’t like who you’ve become. That is the hardest part of it all, I think, but the best part of it all is that only you have the power to change it.

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